Wendigo Physiology

Wendigo Physiology

Spirit of the Winter, the North, coldness, famine and starvation.

Power/Ability to:

Use the traits of wendigo.

"The Weendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Weendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [....] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Weendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption."

Contents

Also Called

Manaha Physiology

Weendigo/Wihtikow/Windago/Windiga/Windigo/Witiko Physiology

Capabilities

User with this ability either is or can transform into a Wendigo: a malevolent cannibalistic spirit strongly associated with the Winter, the North and coldness, as well as with famine and starvation. It was variously a malevolent cannibalistic spirit that could possess humans or a monster that humans could physically transform into, with those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk.

General form tends towards emaciated gauntness, looking and smelling as if recently disinterred from the grave, size ranges from human to gigantic.

Gallery

Ithaqua the Wind-Walker (Cthulhu Mythos)

Wendigo (Supernatural)

Wendigo (Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor)

Wendigo (Marvel)

Wendigo (Hellboy)

Wendigos (Until Dawn) are a supernatural race of monsters that manifest when a human commits cannibalism on Blackwood Mountain, which is where the curse is placed, and yet still active throughout the years.

The Makkapitew (Until Dawn) is a malevolent spirit that haunts Blackwood Mountain and is responsible for the existence of the Wendigos that prowl his forests.

After nearly falling to her death off of a cliff, Hannah Washington (Until Dawn) was forced to eat her sister Beth's corpse to survive...

...forcing her transformation into a Wendigo.

Josh Washington (Until Dawn) becoming a Wendigo.

Billy Bates (Until Dawn) was forced to eat the bodies of dead miners to survive being trapped in the mines, turning him in to a Wendigo.